If you want a custom license plate in Ohio, you have to get it approved by the BMV. It’s an NBC4 Investigates tradition: ...

Ohio may still be a swing state in one sense: on its citizens' bawdy license plates. President Donald Trump was a frequent target of Ohioans trying to sneak vanity license plates past the minders at ...

Some of the requests were outright hilarious, others not so much. Ohio BMV rejected 891 vanity plate requests in 2025 for various reasons. Rejected plates included drug references, sexual innuendos, ...

The Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles told a Lakewood man he can't say "GAY" on his vanity license plate and rejected a request from a Strongsville man to say "MUSLIM" on his plate, according to a federal ...

A federal judge has ruled in favor of William Saki, an Ohio man who sued after the state rejected his request for a personalized license plate reading “GAY,” which he sought to mark National Coming ...

The Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles is relaxing some restrictions on personalized license plates after a federal lawsuit was filed.According to a report from WCMH, two state residents filed a lawsuit ...